Re: Behind the Times? (was Re: Conventions)

In article <43507B24.9000501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sea Wasp <seawaspobvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've been using computers since the '70s myself, and there is no way
>in all the seven hells of space you'd get me back to a command line
>unless you made all GUI interfaces instantly lethal. It's not a matter
>of literacy. It's a matter of ease of use. No command line was EVER as
>easy to use as my Atari ST, my Mac, or even, gods forbid, WinBlows.
>I'd rather use a Windows 95 box than a command line. Hell, I'll even
>take Xwindows.
>

Broccoli.

To use any kind of GUI I know about you have to take at least one
hand off the keyboard! What the hell stupid kind of arrangement
is that?

At least Windows, though I loathe it, has labels underneath its
icons ... unlike the last time I used a Mac, when it had nothing
but naked little pictures whose function was supposed to be
intuitively obvious.

Of course, the *first* Mac I used was the first model ever, whose
documentation said nothing whatever about how you were supposed
to activate the little icons by *doubleclicking* on them.
Nothing. Not a word. I think they fixed that lacuna in the
documentation very quickly, because most Mac-lovers I've
mentioned this to are unwilling to believe that it ever happened.
But they vasn't dere, Sharlie.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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